Toy



C. H. HYMANI TOY.

APPLICATION FILED MAR- I5, 1919.

1E,3%8 2 1 Patented Aug. 3, 1920.

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Application filed March 15,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1', Cn n ns H. HYMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to toys of the Whirligig type, and the object ofthe invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive toy of thischaracter to please children which can be easily and cheaplymanufactured of sheet material by stamping and punching presses.

My invention is illustrated in two practical forms in the accompanyingdrawings, in WlllCh Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of the toydesigned to be operated by both hands of the child, and

Fig. 2 is a simllar view of a slightly different form designed to beheld and operated by a single hand.

Referring first to Fig. 1, the frame or holder of the toy is preferablymade of sheet metal and comprises an upper portion 5 containing anopening 6, and a lower depending shank or handle portion 7 The metal ofthe upper portion 5 is pressed outwardly at diametrically opposite endsof the opening 6 to form bearings 8 and 9 for aspindle 10 that extendsdiametrically across the opening parallel with the plane of the latter.Fixedly mounted on the spindle 10 within the opening 6 is the whirler 11which may be an object of any desired form or shape and is herein shownas the image of a child with arms distended. Preferably the image willbe dressed in bright variegated colors to produce a pleasing andattractive effect.

Just shank 7 is cut and pressed outwardly to provide a pair of strips 12which form bearings in which is mounted a slide bar 13 disposedtransverse to the spindle 10. To the opposite ends of the slide bar 13are connected the ends of a taut cord 14L which is wrapped once or morearound the spindle 10. One end of the slide bar 13 is preferablyprovided with a handle 15.

In use, the toy is held by the handle 7 in one hand of the child and thehandle 15 is grasped with the other hand to reciprocate the slide bar 13back and forth. This sets up a rapid revolution or spinning movementbelow the opening 6 the metal of the Specification of Letters Patent. gm a- A m, 3,1

1319. SerialNO. 282,302.

of the image 11, first in one direction and then in theother.

In the form of the invention illustrated in Fig. 2 the same structuraland operative principles are employed, but this device is designed to beboth held and operated by one hand of the child. In this form I haveshown the upper portion 5 of the holder as circular and provided with acircular opening 6 within which is mounted a disk 11 fast on the spindle10, this latter being journaled in the frame of the toy in the same wayas shown in Fig. 1. 13 is the slide bar, in this instance mounted at theupper end of the toy in guides 12 and provided with an actuating cord141. To the shank 7 are pivoted at 16 a pair of scissors-like arms 17and 18 terminating at their lower ends in ring handles 19 and 20 forengagement by the thumb and finger. The arm 18 is extended upwardly onone side, as shown at 18 to a point opposite the upper end of the toy,and at its upper end is a longitudinal slot 21 engaged by a pin 22projecting laterally from one end of the slide bar 13. The scissorsarms, above the pivot 16, are connected by links 23 and 2a to a pin 25which is slidably mounted in the slot 26 formed in the shank 7; thisconstruction, or some equivalent thereof, being essential to maintainthe. scissors arms in operative relation to the body of the frame orholder and to insure the reciprocation of the slide bar 13. In the useof this form of the device the arms 1'? and 18 are alternately expandedand contracted by the thumb and finger of the child, resulting in thereciprocation of the slide bar 13 and the rapid rotation alternately inopposite directions of the whirling olo'ect 11.

claim:

1. A Whirligig toy, comprising a holder having an opening, a spindlejournaled on said holder and extending diametrically across said openina whirling object mounted on said spindle within said opening, andmanually operable means for ro tating said spindle.

2. A whirligig toy, comprising a flat holder having an opening. aspindle rotatably mounted parallel with the plane of said holder andextending across said open ing, a whirling object mounted on saidspindle within said opening, a slidebar mounted on said holder toreciprocate crosswise of said spindle, and means for rotating saidspindle from said slide-bar during the reciprocations of the latter.

3. A Whirligig toy comprising a fiat holder having an opening, a spindlejonrnaled on said holder and extending diametrically across saidopening, a whirling object mounted on said spindle within said opening,a slide-bar mounted on said holder to reciprocate crosswise of saidspindle, and a cord wrapped around said spindle and at its ends attachedto the ends of said slide ar. i

4. A Whirligig toy, comprising a flat sheet metal holder having anopening and formed with integral bearings at points diametricallyopposite said opening, a spindle journaled in said bearings, a whirlingobject mounted on said spindle within said openlntegral guldes on saidholder, a slide bar mounted to reciprocate in said'guides crosswise ofsaid spindle, and a cord wrapped around said spindle and atiits endsattached to the ends of said slide-bar.

CHARLES H. HYMAN.

